Governor Rell has reintroduced the repeal of the car property tax. The Democrats are unusually against it’s repeal. The Republicans are reluctantly for it. The partisan sniping falls along the anecdotal evidence of how bad the repeal would be.
So why isn’t anyone discussing the car tax on its own merits?
The car property tax represents an inefficient taxation system by way of how it is taxed and collected. 169 towns track car registrations and tax the value of the car according to the local mill rate. If you register the same car to different towns, you get wildly differing tax bills. And low mill rate towns are not immune to the same issues that high rate mill towns suffer, that a proportion of cars are simply registered elsewhere. The abundance of Florida plated cars in Darien and New Canaan is a good example.
